Quote Originally Posted by Swampthing View Post
See this thread:
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...680/index.html

Also, that kilts are in any way Irish. (or English, Norse, or Welsh for that matter.)
This was supposed to be myths. If you had been speaking about the link you posted in that other thread, then that is a myth. What it claims is that each Irish clan wore a different colour kilt, which IS nonsense.

However, there were Irish clans. There were also Irish kilts, but not in the same century.

To say that it's a myth "that kilts are in any way Irish" goes too far to actually be true, because it definitely is true that (1) kilts have been worn in Ireland in centuries previous to this one; and (2) the Scots first developped the great kilt from the Irish brath and leine by the simple expedient of wearing the belt on the outside of the brath (cloak)!

Trying to be kind, perhaps you should have said it was a myth that the kilt was first worn somewhere other than Scotland. Now, that I would have accepted as true.